"When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew." -William Shakespeare (again)
A/N: This might be a long chapter... (who am I kidding, of course it's long, unfortunately... or fortunately)Garth: This is where the fun begins!
Humphrey: The chapter that made the average life in high school into an extraordinary one... (...)
Lilly: No one talked about Humphrey's Benz having a LEGIT theme song last chapter... dafuq?
Garth: I listened to Everything Black a few times in Rocket League, that song is a vibe. (I suggest you give the song a listen if you haven't already)
Humphrey: Blackout, black everything black. Black. Everything, everything... all black. Everything, everything... all black. Everything, everything... all black. Everything, everything black. DUN, DUN, DUN, DU-DU-DU-DU-DUN DUN, DUN, DU-DU-DU-DU-DUN, DUN, DUN DUN-DU-DU-DUN. It fits the totally blacked out Mercedes-Benz SLS Black PERFECTLY.
Kate: I just came back from reading TMELIHS's version of this chapter and I gotta say... Blitz's writing was doodoo crumbs (lol what?) back then. Every line was so fucking short, so many grammatical and spelling errors, hooolllly shiiiit!!!! (what the fuck even is 'doodoo crumbs'?)
Garth: There's still spelling and grammatical errors here too.
Kate: Yeah but thank God it's not even HALF as bad The Most Extraordinary Life In High School. That fic was trash... no offense Blitz.
Blazin' Blitz: (smiles with a tear
)Lilly: On the plus side, you improved... kinda.
Blazin' Blitz: Wow thanks, I appreciate that... kinda
.Garth: Got eem!
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Triple Date Part I
Humphrey's Residence
4 October Friday 18:59
Narrative P.O.V.
Humphrey exits his room in a dark gray pin striped suit with a plain white shirt and cobalt tie. His father's favorite suit. 'Fuck... am I too formal?' He asks himself mentally. Meanwhile, Lilly looks at herself in the guestroom, asking the same question. She packed a violet dress her Eve bought for her to wear to prom when the time comes. 'Fuck... I didn't think this through.' She inhales deeply and prepares herself for anything.
Lilly opens the door and sees Humphrey smartly adjusting his cufflinks. "Too much?" The two omega's ask eachother simultaneously. They both score a point against eachother as they both tried too hard on just their first 'unofficial' date.
Team Blue 2 - 2 Team Purple
"I'm guessing you have a plan on how we're getting around tonight?" Lilly asks him while avoiding eye contact. "Yeah... you'll see soon enough." Humphrey answers her with his full attention on his date's cleavage. "I don't even have to see you to know your mind's in the gutter." Lilly shakes her head. "I can't help it! Your outfit is just... wow." The grey suited omega says in his defense. Lilly smiles and nudges his shoulder. Humphrey dramatically flinches at the contact, still feeling pain from the harsh impacts on the lockers. "Sorry..." Lilly apologizes. "You can make it up to me waiting here for three minutes, more or less." Humphrey says as he rubs his arm. Lilly tilts her head to side, wondering what he had in mind.
"When you hear it, go down to the front door." He says then quickly runs down to the living room. He turns around to make sure Lilly doesn't follow him or peek to see where he's going. 'He better not jump out the backyard or something.' Lilly imagines a comedic scenario of Humphrey ditching her and running off somewhere. She waits there for about 15 seconds before hearing a V8 engine very, very nearby. Like 'exiting the garage right next to the house' nearby. "No fucking way, Humphrey..." Lilly says to herself in the house as she runs down the stairs. She quickly walks to the front door, carefully trying not to trip in her heels.
She opens the door and sees Humphrey standing next to a glossy black Mercedes SLS Black Series with opened gullwing doors. "You kept something so sexy covered in sheets?" Lilly asks, still staring at the car in awe. "It's a long story. For now, let's enjoy our time tonight." Humphrey says before ushering Lilly to the passenger's side of the Benz. She gets in the car and Humphrey goes around to enter the driver's seat. Humphrey connects the auxiliary caple to his phone and plays a song before he starts driving.
(Cities By Throttle)
Won't you come over?
Dying to know where you came from
We're breaking open...
Feel like our future's just begun...
"Well, well, well. Been playing Rocket League much recently?" Lilly asks adding some humor in the drive. "I found this song before I heard it in any Monstercat playlist in the game." Humphrey replies as they cruise down the mainstreet.
And all I know is that we lost time
If we stay right here...
We could free ourselves inside
Humphrey keeps his foot on the gas, knowing that Lilly's loving the sound of the AMG engine. "So, where're we going tonight?" Lilly asks him. "To the mall downtown. We're gonna start things off really cheesy with a flick first." Humphrey says with signature smirk. "Come on, what after?" Lilly asks him. "You decide from there." He replies has they turns left down the next street.
We'll stay awake forever
We'll hide away where no one knows...
Let's run away together
Just lead me into your world...
The couple coincidentally spot an orange and black Chevy Camaro ZL1 1LE cruising ahead of them down Ventura Drive. "You think..." Lilly asks as she focuses on the car's plate. The two cars stop side by side at a redlight.
We'll stay awake forever
We'll hide away where no one knows...
Let's run away together, on our own
Just lead me into your world...
Humphrey looks over Lilly and shows a 'rock on' hand sign at the car across. The driver's window slowly rolls down, revealing Garth's shocked facial expression. 'What. The. Fuck.' The alpha mouth's at the two in the car. A wolf beside him peeks over and waves at the two. "Kate?" Humphrey and Lilly ask simultaneously in suprise. The traffic light turns green and the two wolves drive to the side of the road and park so the two pairs can catch up on the evening.
Garth, wearing an interesting orange and black three piece suit and Kate wearing a scarlet dress, similar to Lilly's violet one, get out of their car to talk to the couple behind them. "Where did you steal this?" Garth asks Humphrey, almost sounding serious about the question. "Not the first time I heard that..." He states comically. "This must be the car you kept in the covers, right?" Kate asks him. Humphrey nods his head. "I restored this car in a single day, thanks to Garth's mechanic."
"Restored? Are you telling me that this thing was almost as good as scrap before you took it to Hutch?" Garth asks in disbelief. "Pretty much, at least I lent my hands to bring this car from the grave." Humphrey replies. "I swear this car feels so brand new. It has a new car smell and everything, what the hell?" Lilly asks, poking Humphrey's arm again. "Ouch, can you not?" Kate and Garth laugh at Humphrey and Lilly's interaction. "Since you two are here in 'cash, money' outfits, I guess you're on a date too?" Garth asks the couple. "Yeah, gonna head to the cinema at JCDT mall then find something to do from there." Humphrey responds. "I knew it! Race you there!" Garth challenges Humphrey as he and Kate run back to the Camaro. "Immature as balls..." Lilly mutters as she facepalms.
Humphrey puts the car in drive and slams his foot on the SLS as soon as Garth takes off. "Unbelievable... you're both immature." Lilly now places both her hands over her face now. "Relax, I've done this before..." Humphrey attempts to reassure her. "Dummy, that's the problem..." Lilly's words are muffled with her hands still on her face.
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5 Minutes Later...
The Benz reaches the underground parking lot first with the ZL1 closely behind it. Lilly is suprised at Humphrey's unlikely victory while Kate isn't. The two cars find an empty spot next to a red Dodge Viper SRT. It seemed tonight was the perfect night for fast and expensive cars to show up.
Humphrey exits his car car then walks around to open the door for Lilly to exit aswell, all gentleman-like. "I'd pay you anyday to do this for me at school." Lilly jokes. "Gross, how dare you..." He responds with a sly smirk. "Are you two actually dating or are you teasing eachother into submission?" Kate asks the omegas. "Ooh, I like the sound of the second one." Lilly says as she winks at Humphrey while walking to the entrance with Kate and Garth. "Same..." Humphrey says then his smirk quickly fades after a concerning realization. He stops then thinks on it. "Wait... what do you mean by that?" He asks as he jogs to catch up with the group.
The four wolves walk into the mall as if they were models or were invited here for a wealthy auction. Nobody in the mall looked at these wolves as if they were ordinary teenaged high school students. "We're like kings and queens in here..." Garth says as he smiles confidently. "I don't like it, we look like wolves with too much money in our pockets..." Lilly says nervously. Garth and Humphrey look at her as if she's crazy. Her late foster parents were literally CEO's of a technological research company, under CSE. They definitely made a handsome load of money.
Humphrey's late biological parents were also of the wealthy calibre. Fortunately, he keeps every cent of that money he inherited in a separate and secret account. One of his father's friends helped him set it up before the 'accident' where he and Humphrey's mother passed.
"We all have deep pockets in some way... we just don't like to show it. Hell, even Garth owns Eggsey's Golden Circle suit from Kingsman somehow." Humphrey jokes. Garth looks down at his orange and black suit then wears a sad smile in front of the group because he knew it was true. "So just to make sure I'm not crazy tonight... we're all here for individual dates, coincidentally, wearing fancy suits and dresses... coincidentally?" Kate asks. "Yep." Lilly and Humphrey answer her harmoniously. It truly was a small world.
The group arrives at the mall's cinema. Because it was a Friday night, it was expected that there would be long queues to get tickets at the front. "Welp, atleast an hour of waiting can fill up our schedule..." Lilly says as she fiddles with her dress. "Lilly?" A familiar feminine voice says from the crowd waiting in line. "I swear if it's Reba and Shakey on date wearing formal clothing like us, I'm gonna kick myself." Garth says.
Reba peeks her head out of the crowd and waves at the four wolves. Humphrey, Lilly, Kate and Garth walk towards the waving hand. Once they join Reba, Garth violently kicks himself in the calf with his left leg. Of course, there they were, Reba wearing a black dress and and Shakey wearing an iconic penguin tuxedo. "Well abra-goddamn-cadabra..." Humphrey says as he greets Shakey with the signature handshake he has with him and his friends. "Yo, what the fuck guys? We're all ready to go for a royal ball or something..." Shakey says. Reba tells the other wolves behind her that the rest of the fancy dressed wolves are with her. She apparently had some kind of power wearing formal clothing in a mall.
"Just checking: this entire group met up tonight, by chance, all wearing formal clothes?" Reba asks. "Yeah, Humphrey and I met up with Garth and Kate on the way here." Lilly answers her. "This is either a good omen or some fucking terrible juju..." Reba says a joke.
After waiting in line for thirty-five minutes, discussing what movie the 'Six' will watch, the group finally buys their drinks and snacks then purchases tickets to watch 'No Time To Die'. They were already wearing clothes to add to some immersion, especially with Humphrey having met a Double-O 7 student not too long ago.
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After the movie...
Humphrey's P.O.V.
That was a great movie, it's always great to see a 007 flick, anyday. The six of us leave the cinema and walk around, deciding on what to do next. "We should eat out somewhere." Kate suggests. "In the mall?" I ask. "Somewhere fancy... I feel rich, so let's live the night like it." She replies. "I know a place but I wouldn't reccomend it. I've heard shady things about that place." Shakey tells us.
"What place?" I ask the shorter wolf curiously. "Southpaw Cuisine... a really classy place." He tells me. "Can't wait, but I gotta pass the rest room first." Kate says. "Same here." Lilly and Reba say together at the same time. "Wow... this has to be scripted." I joke. The ladies walk off to the nearest rest rooms, leaving us just sitting on a bench. "I'm gonna head TailStick Games to buy some wallet topper vouchers, be right back." Shakey tells me and Garth before heading to the gaming store.
"What a weird week, huh?" I try and start a conversation with Garth. "Yep, you got your ass tranquilized and beat up in the same day. How did your History class teacher not see you get shot?" Garth asks. "The tranq dart was smaller than a freaking pin. I had some trouble finding it on my own neck." I explain to him. "Sheesh, must suck to be a Coyote..." Garth states as he adjusts his cufflinks. I groan in annoyance and give up on the idea of having a conversation with him.
An ash black wolf walks past us wearing unmissable red and black clothing. Fate definitely scripted this whole Friday night, for sure. "Iris!" I call the wolf. She quickly turns around and stares at me for a moment before recognizing my face. 'So much for "having a good memory of faces", huh?' "Humphrey? Garth? What the hell are you doing here?" Iris asks us. "What are you doing here?" Garth shoots the question back without answering her. Iris rolls her eyes and shows him her bag of CS accessories and a new phone. I understood why Garth was cautious and I planned on asking Iris something about it.
"Do you know Jason Jericho?" I ask her directly. "Jay. Yeah, I know him." Iris answers almost immediately. "You knew he was a spy?" Garth asks. "A spy? What do you mean?" Iris asks while holding back her laughs. "Spy like '007'. That kinda spy."
"Hahaha! Jay isn't a fucking spy but I guess that's why two are wearing suits at a mall." Iris burst out laughing. "I think you got the names mixed up or something." She adds. "Don't play games, Fischer. That guy pulled a fucking gun in school and he said he knew you!" Garth snaps at her.
"Wow, clearly I've been interrogated enough for one night. I better get going..." Iris says then starts to walk away. "Bitch." Garth says, very audibly behind her back. "What the fuck, man?" I whisper to Garth. Iris stops then turns back around to face Garth. This guy was so screwed, I could literally see the rage in Iris's crimson irises. Pun fully intended. "Say that word... one more time..." Iris dares Garth. "Female dog." He confidently says to her with a smirk. 'The sheer fucking balls and disrespect of this guy...' Iris puts on her aviators then turns away from us. "You're lucky we're in a mall, Richards..." She mutters then storms away with her heels clicking and clacking on the marble floors.
Shakey arrives just after the drama ended with a till slip in his hand. "This should be enough for Insurgency." He tells us with a wide, wholesome smile. The ladies also return just after Iris leaves. "Of course your timing's perfect..." I mutter.
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The six of us walk through the parking lot to our cars. We arrive at the spot where Garth's ZL1 and my SLS Black was parked. Since Shakey and Reba walked with us until here, I immediately assumed the red Viper next to the Benz belonged to either Reba or Shakey. "Friday Night Fate does it again! You just happened to park right next to my car!" Reba exclaims.
"Hold up, you didn't tell us you have a car..." Kate says to her. "I walked home every after school 'cause I didn't want the attention, for obvious reasons..." Reba responds, looking at Garth and his car. I could relate to her statement. That's one of the reasons I didn't touch the Mercedes until today. "So, where's this Southpaw Cuisine?" I ask.
"We'll lead the way." Shakey says then enters the passenger seat of the Dodge Viper SRT. We get in our cars with our dates and exit the underground parking lot in a small convoy. I follow last only because I didn't want to worry about Garth staring at the Benz's rear the whole drive.
I notice Lilly sitting beside me, lost in her own thoughts as I drive. "Where are you?" I ask, trying to humor the mood. "I'm here, sitting right next to you in a car you kept in covers for literally all the years I've known you. There must've been a reason you did that." Lilly answers. Her tone was melancholic, almost empathetic like she knew what happened in this car nine years ago. "Do you want to know?" I ask her. She slowly nods her head. "I'll tell you everything when we get home. I don't want to ruin the mood we have now." I tell her.
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Southpaw Cuisine
Friday 21:22
Humphrey's P.O.V.
The air felt so different here. The parking was filled with sports cars, some super cars and luxury cars. I can't imagine the menu in the restaurant. The six of us walk into the restaurant and blend in well with the atmosphere. Of course, it was fancy, the cutlery, the silverware... everything. The waiters all looked like 007's. Every customer was in some suit or expensive dress. "This is our kind of place..." Garth says and adjusts his collar.
We make our table reservations and walk to the last three tables at the back of the restaurant where we had a perfect view of the parking lot right next to us. Lilly and I pull up our menu's and browse what the restaurant has to offer. "See Shakey, this place ain't so bad." Garth says to the smaller wolf sitting at the table across him.
"Lasagna? For $80?" Lilly asks in disbelief. "Understandable." I say to her while looking at the rest of the expensive meals on the menu. "Considering that it's ready made, I'll take it." I state as I place down the menu. I look at a table a few places behind Lilly's back. A wolf... oh God, that wolf. My hands shake uncontrollably on the table. Lilly places her hand on mine to stop them from shaking. "I thought that only worked in movies." She jokes awkwardly. I look behind her again to confirm if that really was him. I can't forget that fucking face.
Lilly snaps her fingers in front of my face, bringing my attention back to her. "Huh?" I ask. "What's wrong with you? Your hands started shaking a second ago." Lilly says to me. "I can't... we can't stay here." I tell her. Lilly looks at me with concerned eyes. "There's a wolf from my past sitting not far behind."
"He doesn't have anything to do with the Merc, right?" She asks. I don't reply but instead look down at the table. Lilly and I get up from our seats and tell the other two couples to follow us out of the restaurant. They reluctantly agree and follow behind me. We speed walk towards the exit then get stopped by a tall, huge wolf. "Oh crap..." I curse. The old sitting at the table next to the entrance stands up slowly with the help of his cane.
"Why in such a rush? The night's still young." The black furred wolf tells us with an old, toothy smile. "Guys, that's the founder of CSE... in the flesh." Reba whispers to the group but we were more worried about why he stopped us. I stare at the old bastard with so much hatred. "Tell me son, is that your car outside?" He asks, pointing at the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG outside. I slowly nod my head without taking my eyes off his aging face. "That's a special car, she is. It seems to have been taken well cared for. You look so familiar too, young lad. Those blue eyes..." The wolf says, still smiling at me. I almost forget that my friends are standing right behind me. "You look at me with those cold eyes as if I've taken something from you, I've seen eyes like that before..." The old wolf continues to monologue.
I say nothing and just stare him. His old, calm and gentle smile hid his sinister and diabolical side. "You lost a brother? A sister? Your father? Your mama?" He asks, still smiling at me. "You talk too much..." I say to him. His smile widens into a sinister and more devilish grin. "There it is... that stubborn side. Victor Williams's side." He says. "Can you kindly let me and my friends out?" I ask the old black furred wolf. He waves his hand at the larger wolf standing at the entrance. The bouncer-sized wolf steps to the side, opening up the entrance. "It was a pleasure to meet you again, son. It was also a greater pleasure to see your friends faces." He says. At this point, it sounded way too much like a threat so the six of us hurriedly exit the restaurant and run to our cars in the parking lot.
Lilly painfully grabs my arm with unbelievable strength before I reach the Benz. "What the hell?! What was that?" She asks me. "I'll tell you all later, let's just get the fuck away from this place." I reply. "After tonight, it's clear that you're good at hiding huge things, how can we trust you?" Kate asks. It felt so bad hearing Kate not trusting me. "Please, you just have to. Long story short, he was the last face both my parents saw before getting a lead injection to the brain." I explain to the group.
"Jesus Christ! You lied to Lilly and I for seven years, lied to mom and dad! You told us your parents died in a car accident!" Kate yells at me. "That's half a truth. I'm sorry Kate..." I apologize to her. "Who are you...?" She asks with pained words before getting in the ZL1. Everyone looks at me with sad eyes before entering their cars. Lilly shakes her head at with with her eyes tearing up. Thunder rumbles in the distance, making the scenes even darker.
Lilly gets in the Mercedes and I enter after her. I doubt she and anyone else will see me the same again after tonight except for Sam. He's the only one who knew the whole story and believed me because he too experienced something just as traumatic in his childhood.
The group splits up at an intersection, taking our own routes home. "So much for having a great date, huh?" Lilly asks rhetorically, breaking up the silence in the car. "I'm sorry, I-" I try to apologize but she stops me midsentence. "Save it. I just... damnit, I just wish you told us sooner. After all the shit that's going on with CS right now, I though you'd attack tells us that you met the fucking CEO of the enterprise." Lilly says, sounding a lot calmer than before. "I didn't know he was the CEO at the time, I was just a kid who had a terrible birthday." I tell her, slowly breaking myself apart inside as I speak. "Sadly, I can relate to you. The night my birth parents were shot in front of me, I was thinking of all the presents I'd get for my birthday and for Christmas which was just the next day... man was I an expensive girl." Lilly says as she slowly starts to laugh. Even she could come up with jokes in the darkest of times. Omega's rule at not taking shit seriously.
We finally arrive at my house and wait in the car to finish our talk. "All I remember about that guy was that his name was Mark something as a kid. I fuvking hate how I did so much research on CSE and it's conspiracy theories but I couldn't link the CEO's name to a piece I already remembered as a kid. Marcus Zephyr. Tsk, that old bastard..." I slam my fist on the steering wheel at my frustration.
"Marcus Zephyr, huh? Totally doesn't sound like a villain name." Lilly jokes, now she sounded like her usual playful, self. "Tell me about it..." I sigh as I open up the door on my side. I get out he SLS and walk around to the passenger's side to open the door for Lilly. "M'lady..." I say to her. "Sticking to the gentleman's role up until the end, I admire that." She says and holds her hand out for me. I hold her hand as she exits the Mercedes. I close the door and leave the car parked on the side of the road for when it's time to park it the garage.
I walk with Lilly towards the front door but we stop dead in our tracks on the porch as we notice the sound of soft beeping followed by a click coming from the otherside of the door. I instinctively push Lilly as hard as I could, away from the house and onto a neighboring house's lawn. I brace myself for the blast but I underestimated just how powerful the explosion would be. The force of the blast knocks me flying back and crashing against a my metal mailbox.
I try rolling myself onto the lawn but it hurt so much just trying to move my arm. "Yeah, something's definitely broken..." I say as I grip on my left arm with my right. I start struggling with keeping my eyes open. I watch my house crumbling in a blaze from my pained position on the ground. My hearing was impaired from the explosion and I couldn't move a fucking muscle. "Humphrey..." I manage to hear Lilly say my name through my ringing ears. I barely see her running towards me before I eye lids shut and become too heavy to heavy to open again. My final thoughts before losing consciousness were: 'Ah well, atleast my last moments were directed by Michael Bay...'
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A/N: Not gonna lie, I'm happy that this chapter's shorter than the original (TMELIHS). Thanks for reading :)
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The Lounge: "Expanded And Enhanced"
Humphrey: A suprise to be sure... but a welcome one.
Iris: 6/10 it was some kind of improvement to TMELIHS. It's still much shorter.
Humphrey: Why are you here?
Iris: I'm the new Kate. Haven't heard of the show: Black is the new Orange?
Lilly: It's actually Orange is the new Black, dipshit.
Kate: (somehow fades back into existence)
Iris: Goddamnit.
Garth: Imagine getting blown up and your final image in your head is:
Directed By Michael Bay
Lilly: That's a stud muffin's death. POG Giga Chad's make memes and references when they die.
Blazin' Blitz: Skizzle memes, respecc da culture.
Humphrey: WAIT, I'VE JUST REALIZED THE MOST BULLSHIT LOGIC IN THIS CHAPTER!!!
Garth: What? Nothing really makes sense anyway.
Humphrey: This story is centered around late 2019. HOW DA FUCK IS 007'S NO TIME TO DIE RELEASED?!
Lilly: Shut up, it's just fanfiction. Nothing is supposed to make sense.
Kate: That's where you're wrong kiddo.
Lilly: Fuck you.
Garth: Geez hun, why're so aggresive?
Lilly: Hang on, when we're in The Lounge, we aren't a couple. Only in stories and canon movies.
Garth: Okay, sorry bitch.
Lilly: (loads shotgun)
Humphrey: Why is everyone choosing violence today?
Blazin' Blitz: Because some random show overtook Squid Game's #1 rank worldwide some time ago. Jk, I don't know...
Garth: Ngl, I'm lowkey triggered about that too.
Lilly: (puts on a pink suit and wears a mask with a triangle painted on it) Peace was never an option...
Humphrey: (grabs a mask with a square painted over it) Cowabunga it is...
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To Be Continued...
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